Genesis 47:9

Jacob calls his 130 years a pilgrimage that has been few and hard, shorter than his fathers' lives. He views life as a sojourn under God.

Cross-references · 27

• Job 14:1“Man, who is born of a woman, is of few days, and full of trouble.
• Ps 39:12“Hear my prayer, Yahweh, and give ear to my cry. Don’t be silent at my tears. For I am a stranger with you, a foreigner, as all my fathers were.
• Gen 35:28The days of Isaac were one hundred eighty years.
• Ps 39:5Behold, you have made my days hand widths. My lifetime is as nothing before you. Surely every man stands as a breath.” Selah.
• 1 Pet 2:11Beloved, I beg you as foreigners and pilgrims, to abstain from fleshly lusts, which war against the soul;
• Jas 4:14Whereas you don’t know what your life will be like tomorrow. For what is your life? For you are a vapor, that appears for a little time, and then vanishes away.
• Exod 6:4I have also established my covenant with them, to give them the land of Canaan, the land of their travels, in which they lived as aliens.
• Josh 24:29After these things, Joshua the son of Nun, the servant of Yahweh, died, being one hundred ten years old.
• Deut 34:7Moses was one hundred twenty years old when he died. His eye was not dim, nor his strength gone.
• Exod 7:7Moses was eighty years old, and Aaron eighty-three years old, when they spoke to Pharaoh.
• Gen 50:26So Joseph died, being one hundred ten years old, and they embalmed him, and he was put in a coffin in Egypt.
• Job 42:16–17After this Job lived one hundred forty years, and saw his sons, and his sons’ sons, to four generations.
• Gen 25:7–8These are the days of the years of Abraham’s life which he lived: one hundred seventy-five years.
• Heb 11:9–16By faith, he lived as an alien in the land of promise, as in a land not his own, dwelling in tents, with Isaac and Jacob, the heirs with him of the same promise.
• Ps 119:54Your statutes have been my songs, in the house where I live.
• Job 8:8–9“Please inquire of past generations. Find out about the learning of their fathers.
• Gen 47:28Jacob lived in the land of Egypt seventeen years. So the days of Jacob, the years of his life, were one hundred forty-seven years.
• Gen 11:24–25Nahor lived twenty-nine years, and became the father of Terah.
• Ps 119:19I am a stranger on the earth. Don’t hide your commandments from me.
• Gen 11:11Shem lived five hundred years after he became the father of Arpachshad, and became the father of more sons and daughters.
• Ps 90:3–12You turn man to destruction, saying, “Return, you children of men.”
• Heb 13:14For we don’t have here an enduring city, but we seek that which is to come.
• Gen 5:27All the days of Methuselah were nine hundred sixty-nine years, then he died.
• 1 Chr 29:15For we are strangers before you, and foreigners, as all our fathers were. Our days on the earth are as a shadow, and there is no remaining.
• Ps 89:47–48Remember how short my time is! For what vanity have you created all the children of men!
• 2 Sam 19:32–35Now Barzillai was a very aged man, even eighty years old. He had provided the king with sustenance while he stayed at Mahanaim; for he was a very great man.
• 2 Cor 5:6Therefore we are always confident and know that while we are at home in the body, we are absent from the Lord;

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